The Pressing Matters Podcast

A perfect Brighton took advantage of Arsenal's bad habits, making them say "take me back to London". Can other teams repeat it, or will the A-Team sing again?As well as Fabian Hürzeler, many Premier League managers were playing in the good old days of 2012, but what does that mean? Exciting times for the Premier League, for sure. This is the moment. Tonight is the night. So join us as we put our hands up. Like the ceiling can't hold us.1:05 - Is Sam better than Ed Sheeran?13:07 - Scores Round-up16:38 - Brighton's impressive victory30:41 - Complaints about Manchester City32:16 - More on Brighton43:51 - "Young" Premier League managers51:09 - Chelsea's squad56:07 - More enemies & Snoopy1:00:34 - Toby's haircut friend at Subway1:04:02 - Important Matalan update1:10:07 - Smart Watches

Arsenal are good. Manchester City are good. So let's have a good old look at some teams that aren't good. Are Tottenham Hotspur good? No, why are you asking that? But there are lots of teams that aren't good. As David Bowie said, you're not alone. You're wonderful. Coventry City. Manchester United. Fulham without Luc De Fougerolles. These teams aren't good right now, but will they ever be good? We also talk about Matalan.03:33 - Manchester United fail to win in the derby19:05 - Manchester City and Enzo Fernandez24:05 - Spurs chat1:02:53 - An important Fulham chat1:08:38 - Coventry City1:19:28 - Nile Screamer

Who's hot and who's not? Spurs haven't scored, Fulham have scored but still lost every game, while those tricky tigers from the Humber find themselves in the Champions League places. Find out what we make of Arsenal after a very fun game against Chelsea, while Manchester United and Everton played out a draw leaving question marks over both teams. The Premier League is back, gauchos!09:29 - Hull City and Konstantinos Tzolakis23:30 - Fulham26:12 - The Alex Iwobi 100 Conspiracy27:54 - The Luc De Fougerolles Segment33:56 - Tottenham Hotspur49:27 - Arsenal53:53 - Are Arsenal cheats?1:04:10 - Manchester United1:07:35 - FA Cup nonsense and Match Secretaries1:14:10 - George Clooney & Theresa May

You've been mauled by the tigers! Not really, this is just a podcast, but Manchester United felt the stripey wrath of the Premier League's new boys and were left stranded by Northern Rail to pile on a miserable Saturday afternoon in Hull. Amongst all of this, Spurs were dreadful, to Sam's delight, leading Toby to fantasise about cheese sandwiches for a while.Liverpool hit back late against Newcastle, who looked alright so we talk about that, and there was a tantalising turf war as Chelsea won the rights to the fantastically stylish Fulham Road Five Guys.Just to note, one of us didn't have any headphones this week which meant there's a bit less of the electric back-and-forth our listeners are used to - but expect more good stuff in two weeks time after Toby scouts the Greek Super League for the next Stelios Giannakopoulos.

The Premier League is back! Can Arsenal defend their title, will Manchester City be anything, and what do we think of Tottenham? How bad are Hull City, will Real Madrid Castilla's relocation to SW6 pay off, and will Crystal Palace return to finishing 11th? Will Manchester United cope with playing in more than one competition, will Chelsea finally have spent enough money, and will Aston Villa have any players left? We answer all of this and more as we go through our prediction for the entire Premier League table for the 26/27 season. Let's goooooo!1:45 - Robot's doing jobs5:54 - 20th 11:01 - 19th12:48 - 18th15:24 - 17th19:02 - 16th22:49 - 15th31:33 - 14th34:05 - 13th35:31 - 12th36:41 - 11th38:29 - 10th40:17 - 9th41:51 - 8th49:52 - 7th52:47 - 6th56:11 - 5th1:03:18 - 4th1:09:54 - 3rd1:14:47 - 2nd1:19:21 - 1st

It's a big-up to Big Jupp, as Heynckes takes on his op Klopp in a palatable Pokal final. Goals aplenty at a historic time for German football; World Cup champions in 2014, while just two years earlier, the majority of that side took part in one of the most memorable Bundesliga campaigns. Can Klopp's trailblazing "heavy metal" football topple the unstoppable Munich machine?Featuring: Toby Puigserver @pressingpod and Luke @cockereltalkpodProducer: Sam Hyde

Future Ballon d'Or winners Kaká and Andriy Shevchenko (who won at the end of this year) play together for Milan, while Vieri, Stankovic, and 99 Shot Power Adriano start for Inter in this game from 2004; the birthyear of Franz Ferdinand, McFly, and Facebook - and a great time for Italian football. Join us with another trip through the time vortex - this time to the San Siro as AC Milan host Internazionale in this classic Derby della Madonnina.Featuring: Toby Puigserver @pressingpod and Luke @cockereltalkpodProducer: Sam Hyde

Spain are World Champions after a pretty uninspiring defence by Argentina; England and France crashed out at the semi-finals but at least got to score a bunch of goals in a meaningless Bronze Final. We give our feelings at the end of the biggest World Cup ever: thoughts on Spain plus some of the winners and losers of this tournament.04:38 - England's uninspiring exit17:05 - Toby thinks Spain are beatable31:05 - Argentina are the bad guys38:14 - Javier Milei's chainsaws and the Swiss police43:39 - Winners and Losers

We have some fun in the second half reminiscing about England's famous win over Mexico at the Azteca, but before all that we have the small matter of constitutional chaos as Egypt fume at their exit amidst a controversial set of VAR decisions in favour of Argentina. More Latam drama occured as Paraguay went out to France, and the USA disappointed against a Belgium team that still has Axel Witsel knocking about.5:25 - Argentina go through via ref drama8:27 - Egypt's ruled-out goal vs FIFA's fading goodwill20:56 - A brief history of referees by Sam Hyde29:40 - ENGLAND win vs Mexico47:53 - Mexican vs USA culture50:47 - Toby watches an MLS game55:17 - USA eliminated by Belgium1:00:25 - Sam defends Paraguay